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Big Data Analytics in Healthcare.

BioMed research international ·Vol. 2015 ·2015-00-00 ·Pages 370194

Belle A, Thiagarajan R, Soroushmehr SM, Navidi F, Beard DA, Najarian K

Abstract

The rapidly expanding field of big data analytics has started to play a pivotal role in the evolution of healthcare practices and research. It has provided tools to accumulate, manage, analyze, and assimilate large volumes of disparate, structured, and unstructured data produced by current healthcare systems. Big data analytics has been recently applied towards aiding the process of care delivery and disease exploration. However, the adoption rate and research development in this space is still hindered by some fundamental problems inherent within the big data paradigm. In this paper, we discuss some of these major challenges with a focus on three upcoming and promising areas of medical research: image, signal, and genomics based analytics. Recent research which targets utilization of large volumes of medical data while combining multimodal data from disparate sources is discussed. Potential areas of research within this field which have the ability to provide meaningful impact on healthcare delivery are also examined.

MeSH Terms
Datasets as Topic Delivery of Health Care/methods Genomics Humans Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted Statistics as Topic
Authors & Affiliations
6 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Belle Ashwin
Emergency Medicine Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ; University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Thiagarajan Raghuram
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Soroushmehr S M Reza
Emergency Medicine Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ; University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Navidi Fatemeh
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Beard Daniel A
University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Najarian Kayvan
Emergency Medicine Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ; University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Article Info
Journal
BioMed research international
Abbr.
Biomed Res Int
ISSN
2314-6141
DOI
10.1155/2015/370194
Published
2015-00-00
Epub
2015-00-02
Pages
370194
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
101600173
PMCID
PMC4503556
Subset
IM
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